Raph Goldacre
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Raph Goldacre
Epidemiologist, Unit of Health Care Epidemiology
Raph Goldacre is an Epidemiologist at the Unit of Health-Care Epidemiology in the Big Data Institute, working with record-linked routine health data to examine patterns in cause-specific hospitalisation and mortality in England.
Supported by Public Health England, the Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, and Health Data Research, Raph's research collaborations include studies of long-term time trends in hospitalisation and mortality/case-fatality (distinguishing epidemiological burden of disease, healthcare burden of disease and artefact caused by e.g. changes in data collection methods), in relation to acute and chronic non-communicable diseases, childhood infections, common surgical procedures, clinical and public health interventions, and shifts in healthcare delivery. Other research collaborations include record-linkage studies of disease-disease associations and multimorbidity; studies of variation in mortality/morbidity by geographic region, reported ethnicity, and area-level deprivation; and studies of record-linked parent-child data to investigate associations between perinatal factors and maternal/paediatric disease.
Raph holds an MSc in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, has published over 40 peer-reviewed papers, and teaches on the NDPH MSc course in Global Health Science & Epidemiology and the BDI course in Hospital Episode Statistics.
Recent publications
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Relative contribution of trends in myocardial infarction event rates and case fatality to declines in mortality: an international comparative study of 1·95 million events in 80·4 million people in four countries.
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Camacho X. et al, (2022), Lancet Public Health, 7, e229 - e239
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Indirect effects of the covid-19 pandemic on childhood infection in England: population based observational study.
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Kadambari S. et al, (2022), BMJ, 376
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Group B Streptococcal Disease in England (1998 - 2017): A Population-based Observational Study.
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Kadambari S. et al, (2021), Clin Infect Dis, 72, e791 - e798
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New dimensions for hospital services and early detection of disease: a Review from the Lancet Commission into liver disease in the UK.
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Williams R. et al, (2021), Lancet, 397, 1770 - 1780
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the detection and management of colorectal cancer in England: a population-based study.
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Morris EJA. et al, (2021), Lancet Gastroenterol Hepatol, 6, 199 - 208